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From: Katherine Flynn <>
Subject: Re: [APG] FW: Oral History
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:39:52 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: 6667


May I recommend looking for sources in the field of
anthropolgy - a field that depends on such
interviews...? A quick review of the latest
recommended text books gives:

Recording Oral History, Valerie Raleigh Yow, 1994.
amazon listing at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0803955790/qid%3D986842672/sr%3D1-1/ref%3Dsc%5Fb%5F2/104-8028024-7500749

There also appears to be an Oral History Association
at Dickinson University and they may be a great
resource to contact in person. The following link is
to the part of their web site on ethics for such
projects.

http://www.dickinson.edu/oha/pub_eg.html

Case Western Univ. has a web site on a similar project
involving Tibet:

http://www.case.edu/affil/tibet/moreTibetInfo/oral_history.htm

I am sure there are more but I think Anthropology
Dept. would be a great resource on the topic.

All the best,
Kathy Flynn


--- Mills <> wrote:
> The following is a request for help from David
> Kendall Martin, FASG. Would
> APG-Listers have recommendations for an oral-history
> guide--with the
> requested emphasis on methodology--that would be
> appropriate for the
> situation described below?
>
>
> < While in Qatar I meet a Qatari PhD who is involved
> in a pioneering (for
> that region) effort to rescue the genealogies of
> several Bedouine tribes.
> As they have few records, his method is through
> interviewswith older people
> with memories before oil. It is an exciting
> project. He is interested in
> methodology. I want to send him one or two books on
> techniques for
> gathering oral history. As this is an area
> unfamiliar to me, I wonder if
> you know of THE book or books in this field. >
>
> Elizabeth Shown Mills
>
>
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